Books by Jim Linderman

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Perhaps I should
start this post by saying Honey Holiday ended up marrying a Texas
millionaire worth 32 million dollars. At least so claims the man who
gave Honey her stripper name…Larry Saunders, one time booking agent for
Baltimore's notorious block. Larry also says a good stripper's career
can last about as long as a football running back. Larry gave some 50
dancers their stage names…including Fanne Fox, the burlesker caught with
a drunken Representative Wilbur Mills in the Tidal Basin in Washington,
DC. Fanne
Fox was really Annabelle Battistella...but neither of them have
anything to do with Honey, though it was this event which led a reporter
from the Associated Press to Larry, I suppose...which gave him a moment
of fame. The story was picked up by a few local papers. (St. Petersburg Times July 3, 1975 AP wire story)

Unfortunately,
neither Larry or the reporter provide Honey's REAL name, so I have to
spend a few grueling minutes looking her up.

Hmmm…looks like
Honey also used the classy handle "The Sex Kitten" while dancing her way
to success…and also "Honeypot" according to the cover of the smut rag I
am looking at. She was one sweet nectar…WHOA! I haven't found her
name yet, but I can tell you she was no blonde…and had little shame as
well. Oh oh…what's on top isn't real either. Honey has those implants
which went in before the technique was perfected (which was not yet
actually…but these are some kind of rock.)

Shudder.

Here is an
article which paints the picture I'm looking for in words, but again, no
real name. A old-timer from the Bronx reminiscing in front of the
crumbling Gayety Burlesque, where "pictures advertised Amber Mist and
Honey Holiday, local sex kittens" it says. Well, 1979, possible. But
that is hardly Texas high society glamour…did the millionaire toss her
out? Maybe she was in Miami for that "holiday" in her name and decided
to give it one more shot on stage…right on sleazy Collins Avenue before
they cleaned it up. (Milwaukee Sentinel January 20 1979)

Here is a Honey
posing for Irving Klaw 20 years earlier. She LOOKS the same, kinda, but
intoxicated. Just my opinion. I'm not a traffic cop or a doctor, but I
gotta say she doesn't look too good. Maybe she spent the night before
out late. Wait..this can't be the same Honey…though both are topped
with huge blonde wigs, this HAS to be a different Honey, doesn't it? A
real long shot with a short lens, so I am going to say not our Honey.

There is another
Honey Holiday in one of those dreadful "neo-burlesque" shows remembering
the glory days, but I don't care about her. I'll let someone look her
up 50 years from now and find this post.

Let's see what
else…ACK! Do NOT use the search strategy I just tried. There is
ANOTHER Honey Holiday and she is not too particular. Let's pass on this
one.

Ahhh…this could
be our Honey…you know, the glamorous one. A woman named Holiday
appears in the porn film "Female Athletes" with wasted, drug-addicted
John Holmes. She appears in only one scene and no one has liked her on
Google Plus OR Facebook…a bad sign. Wait…brunette…and her first name is
Bonnie. Wrong again.

Here is a Honey
Holiday on the cover of Fury Magazine, 1963…and she is a brunette too.
She is also quite pretty. Not our Honey.

BINGO! Here she
is, in a smut rag on one of those illegal download sites which has paid a
clerk minimum wage to scan an entire issue allowing them to violate
copyright in massive doses just so you will pay to "chat" with a virtual
hooker pretending to cyber…but I don't want to gum up my hard drive
with their junk. Wait a minute while I clear my cache and close the
pop-up windows…several of them with unfortunate workers anxiously
awaiting my credit card.

I guess that's
about it. Not much there considering she was billed as The Queen of the
Strippers. If anyone out there knows Honey Holiday's real name, I'll
be glad to post it. I hope her millionaire husband is too old to kick
my ass.

The Birth of Rock and Roll: Photographs from the Collection of Jim Linderman

The BOOK Times Square Smut

Feel Free to Follow

"…disclosing an underground history of American popular culture one oddball tale at a time." NEW YORK TIMES

"We’ve all got a sleazy side, haven’t we?"Design Blog It's Nice That.

"...one of the blog writers to watch for"ARTSlant

"...collected over the years by Jim Linderman, a character who seems the perfect subject for a Harvey Pekar comic. Linderman treats collecting like a calling, and his finds have a resulting air of authority, stunning in their capture of bygone picturesque moments."Derek Taylor Dusted

"...Jim Linderman’s blog Vintage Sleaze – a treasure chest (sorry) of adult gags, disreputable imagery and sordid stories featuring some of America’s best-loved sexy artists. Vintage Sleaze is “the true and untold history of smut in America,” Linderman reveals in the site’s opening statement – now if that’s a line that doesn’t tickle your fancy, I don’t know what will."Alex Moshakis It's Nice That

"Linderman acknowledges the obscure at the same time that he elevates it.... His collections tell vast stories in sotto voce, allowing curios and objects shadowed by mainstream culture and ideology to converse and be heard. What we hear is an enormous American sub-culture speaking in forbidden, marginalized languages: stuff discovered boxed in the attic out of embarrassment or zealotry, smutty ash trays crowing next to religious pamphlets, each claiming a part of the complex, sometimes contradictory, always conflicted American imagination, a chaos of memories that will one day vanish."Joe Bonomo Author of Conversations With Greil Marcus, Jerry Lewis Lost and Found and No Such Thing As Was

"The pictures, discarded artifacts of ecstatic Americana, come from the stash of Jim Linderman, who in his introduction recalls advice he’s plainly taken to heart: “Collect the heck” out of whatever you find interesting."Drew Jubera Paste Magazine

"His interest in art is rivaled only by his interest in music, and one expression informs the other. He pursues objects with thoroughness and an innate sense of curiosity..."Tanya Heinrich Folk Art Magazine

"Documenting--one clipping at a time--the scrapbook of a leg and garter aficionado that was dumpster-dived in Virginia in the 60s" "...an outstanding image-archaeologist who has compiled a shelf-ful of worthy and unique photographic histories."William Smith Hang Fire Books

"Linderman has a knack for discovering untold stories and introducing them to a wider audience"Joey Lin Anonymous Works

"Jim Linderman...makes us all look a little puny"Could it be Madness-this?

"...there's something beyond the endless photos and postcards and weird propaganda from another time that he lovingly documents - I think it's the collection as a whole, the portrait of a person fascinated with culture and communication. I have met people like this before, and in reading Dull Tool Dim Bulb I feel I have been lucky enough to meet one more. This site is a goldmine in terms of links..."The Hyggelic Life October 2009

"Linderman is always on the lookout for the new and exciting"Chuck and Jan Rosenak Contemporary American Folk Art

"...an amazing collection..."Revel in New York October 2009

"Jim Linderman has a nice little colllection of interesting books and blogs...But every so often he just loses it."American Digest March 2010

"Perpetually ahead of the collecting curve...a one man Taschen. An authentically curious individual...diligently archiving the forgotten curiosities of American History"

Emma Higgins in Art Hack May 2012

"FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, COLLECTOR JIM LINDERMAN has searched high and low for authentic things--unique and special objects that define the artistic culture of the American experience. From folk art to popular culture, from pulp fiction to Delta Blues-- Jim is a walking authority on so many things American they are too numerous to mention. One thing is certain-- his collecting interests are for things that have fallen through the cracks, those things lost and forgotten--the box of material under the table at the flea market booth. If it wasn't for dedicated collectors like Jim Linderman-- so many important objects about our culture would have surely been lost to time and indifference."

"Jim Linderman maintains a most interesting blog about the most amazing things from his collection—a site he calls “Dull Tool Dim Bulb,” the only curse words his father ever uttered. I love it, and read it everyday.""...an excellent writer and I devour your blog daily. I am impressed at your deep knowledge of things within your niche..."John Foster Accidental Mysteries

"I am grateful to Jim Linderman for first alerting me to the existence of the 1930s Spiritualist hymn "Jesus is My Air-o-plane."William Fagaly New Orleans Museum of Art, Author Tools of her Ministry: The art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

"Linderman describes a long gone world...(he) claims not to be a writer but he is most certainly an excellent researcher..."BOOKSTEVE

"Jim Linderman, King of the Internet Ephemeral Arts"Spaniel Rage

"Jim is a fantastic historian...show him some love"Astrid Daley Fringe Pop / Sin-A-Rama